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fireflies

Variant of firefly

noun pl. fireflies

any of a family (Lampyridae) of winged beetles, active at night, whose abdomens usually glow with a luminescent light

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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